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Of Safavid 'silk Kashan' design, the wine red field with animals and mythological beasts set within an open floral lattice, the blue-green border with large blooms alternating with smaller red flowerheads between ivory minor stripes, localised restorations
14ft.5in. x 11ft.7in. (444cm. x 358cm.)
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The design of this carpet derives from a sixteenth century silk Kashan rug, central Persia, in the Gulbenkian Collection , Lisbon, (Kurt Erdmann, Oriental Carpets, Germany, 1960, fig. 69.

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